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June 12, 2009 – 7:26 pm

edward burtynsky

Eat your heart out Richard Serra.  http://www.edwardburtynsky.com > ships > shipbreaking.

After reading this post I was referred to here by a friend:
http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/
It turns out to be doubly relevant to recent posts: not only containing beautiful images of manufactured landscapes, but also absolutely stunning images of shipbreaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
via Nico Sy, who doesn’t have a blog but [...]

By Stephen | Posted in architecture, asides, geography, landscape | Also tagged , , , | Comments (3)
June 9, 2009 – 1:26 pm

recent reading

1. A post on Human Transit points out the “old habits of urbanist thought” that were built into the structure of SimCity. Would be interesting to not only expose the fallacious assumptions embedded in the game, but to ruminate on the ways in which the game, being a particularly late-arriving artifact of modernist urbanism, [...]

By rholmes | Posted in architecture, asides | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (2)